SOCAR Polymer and Azerikimya Honoured 1918 Genocide Victims Memory

Mar 31, 2018

On March 31, 2018, delegations from SOCAR Polymer and Azerkimia visited the memorials in Guba and Gusar regions, to commemorate a centenary of the genocide against the Azerbaijani people.

Corporate staff as well as Sumgayit chemical industry delegates, entrepreneurs, business leaders, official authority and representatives of the academic, educational, cultural communities, public organizations and mass media travelled to Guba to bow a knee and lay a wreath at the Guba Genocide Memorial, a poignant testimony to the tragic events in the history of Azerbaijan, the horror and carnage our people had lived through.

Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev, Milli Mejlis deputies Tahir Mirkishili, Mirzajan Khalilov, Azer Badamov and Eldaniz Salimov guided the commemorating ceremony at the Guba Genocide Memorial museum complex. A wreath was laid at the base of the memorial on behalf of the chemical community of Sumgayit, followed by a one-minute silence, to mourn the lives of our compatriots, brutally cut short in 1918 by Armenian barbarians, and pray for the innocent souls.

Further on, the delegation travelled from Guba to Gusar, to lay a wreath and flowers to the Gusar Blood Valley Memorial raised in 2009 to pay tribute to the valiants of Guba and Gusar who fought against the Armenian Dashnak troops in 1918, and drove the outnumbering armed gangs of the Armenian enemy away.